The Washington critic., 1887-12-17

derliness. they. went voluntarily back
to the grind of their poverty. They
went back because they liked tho grind
and dirt and dcsolation better than the
care and cleanliness and vigilance which
are necessary 10 civilization, and which
would make these persons valuable TO
civilization.
What New York missionaries should
do is TO convert her children TO tho
GOSPEL or rGEsH AIR AND CLEAN LIVING.
Whatever the obstacles, however, they
are to lie overcome. The problem
is TO be solved, not swampcd. If mis-
trcsscs are selfish and grasping, Il is tho
business of the church TO make them un-
selfish and generous. IL servants arc
stupid and faithless, it is the business Of
the church TO cnlightcn and stimulate
them TO fidelity. Nothing would help
this more than the knowledge on the
part of both mistress and maid that
they arc moi working alone in the dark,
helpless, but are sheltered under a sys-
tenn, are helped by nm organiza-
ton. My living sympnthies, | admit,
are largely on the side OF the mistress,
because ] have seen n great deal mora
suffering of the mistress nt the hands of
1tr 0lIlu IIlilD NulltlblE VI Nll' Nlllu w
the hands of her mistress. But | am
willing TO admit that the latter may also
exist in large proportions. ! am willing
to admit that, though American women
seem TO be kind-hcarted, sympathetic
and humane they may really be sticks
and stones, not to SHY iicnds.
Even then, with a committee COM
posed, let us say, of Rev. Hcbcr New
toms deacons and deaconesses at the
New York end of the line, and Rev.
Temple Cutters at tho Essex County.
Mass, end. We might have a sort OF
court of arbitration which should soften
the ferocity of the female American,
and make it possible for two women dy-
ing of ovcrwork 100 miles apart to help
bear each others burdens in tho, same
house, to their mutual profit and saliva
ton.
There is one thing that cannot be
done. and that is to let things 90 ons as
they are. IT Is not only wicked, but it
is dangerous. Society has accomplished
but small part of its work of self
defense when II has executed justice on
anarchistiC murdercrs. An earlier and
| higher work is done by converting the
material ont of'which
ANARcuY MAKES MuRDERERs
into children of law and light. II is tho
! due and the duties of civilized society
/ that these suffering poor should be re-
| licvcd and il is Indispensable to their
relief that they should be taught. Tho
danger that threatens us to-day is igno'
rance-ignoranc in the rich and igno.
rance in the poor. Rich men are keen
and intelligent, and even intellectual in
great matters. They know how to make
! wide combinations. how to utilize men,
how to WELD material forces, how TO
make money. And side by side or close
! behind lie other equally great matters to
! which they are totally blind.
( We find ourselves in u world where a
certain inexpressibly minute conforma-
ton in the throat and II certain mex
pressibly minute conformation in the ear
may be so cultivated rs to confer q SUBJ
| tie delight to the soul. The millionaire
| can furnish The cultivation, but the cul-
tivatablc quality is the result of law
beyond his comprehension even, not to
mention his control. This is so we'll
understood that it is never argued. No
man is so rich as to think he can make
his daughter Patti, unless she
was born 50. He knows he cannot
reverse the law of Patti. But no moro
can he reverse the law of righteousness
or the law of love. No more can he re-
verse tho law that the law of righteous
nc-,, Is the law of love, and that the law
of love is ultimately the law OF self
preservation.
GAII, HAMILTON,